Sarah Turnpaugh, LCSW

Sarah Turnpaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with five years of practice who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. She meets clients with calm attention and practical support. Her approach centers on listening and helping people find manageable steps forward.

She often works with trauma, parenting challenges, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also helps people dealing with ADHD, self-esteem struggles, anger, and career changes. Sarah offers straightforward tools to handle daily problems and emotional overload.

Her sessions draw on client-centered work that prioritizes each person’s priorities and pacing. She pairs that with cognitive behavioral techniques to notice patterns of thought and behavior, and with solution-focused ideas to create short-term goals. Narrative work is used when reframing life stories feels helpful.

Sarah has experience supporting adolescents and adults through grief, domestic violence aftermath, chronic illness, and first responder stress. She listens for patterns such as abandonment or attachment issues and helps clients practice new ways of coping and communicating. Sessions emphasize small, practical changes that fit into busy lives.

Sarah practices in Virginia and offers services in English. She invites people to begin with a brief matching process so scheduling can reflect individual needs. If someone is ready to start, she encourages using the continue button on this profile to complete the short questionnaire and arrange an appointment.

How Sarah’s Approaches Shape Online Work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s needs and pace. The therapist listens closely and helps shape sessions around what matters most to the client, which is useful for stress, grief, and relationship concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going. It uses simple exercises and practice tasks to change unhelpful habits and improve mood and coping skills.

Motivational Interviewing supports people who are unsure about change by exploring ambivalence and strengthening motivation. It can be helpful for career moves, health changes, and building confidence to try new strategies.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Sarah will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts pacing and techniques as sessions progress so the work aligns with what the client needs.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the available session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, shorten travel time, and allow brief check-ins when a full in-person visit is difficult. Some approaches lend themselves to exercises between meetings, which can be done remotely to support steady progress.